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Capital punishment: Baghdad's deteriorating security situation / Rowas, Meda al

Rowas, Meda Al	Journal Article
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2014.

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Counterterrorism ; Iraq ; Kurdistan ; Capital punishment ; Baghdad ; Security Situation ;
Sunni Tribes ; Militant Violence

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ID: 184684

Increase in militant violence likely after military coup in Burkina Faso / Nicell, Heather

Nicell, Heather	Journal Article
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Military Coup ; Burkina Faso ; Militant Violence

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ID: 158378

Tactical diversity in militant violence / Potter, Philip B K; Horowitz, Michael C ; Perkoski, Evan

Potter, Philip B K	Journal Article
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Militant groups, like all organizations, carefully consider the tactics and strategies that they employ. We assess why some militant organizations diversify into multiple tactics while others limit themselves to just one or a few. This is an important puzzle because militant organizations that employ multiple approaches to violence are more likely to stretch state defenses, achieve tactical success, and threaten state security. We theorize that militant organizations respond to external pressure by diversifying their tactics to ensure their survival and continued relevance, and that the primary sources of such pressure are government repression and interorganizational competition. We find consistent support for these propositions in tests of both the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) data sets. We bolster these findings with an additional specification that employs ethnic fractionalization in the first stage of a multi-process recursive model. These findings are relevant not only for academic research but for policy as well. While it is difficult for countries to anticipate the character of future tactical choices, they may be able to anticipate which groups will most readily diversify and thereby complicate counterterrorism efforts.

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Militant Violence ; Tactical Diversity

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Tajik security forces clash with armed group near Afghan border / Clements, Matthew

Clements, Matthew	Journal Article
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2012.

Key Words

Afghanistan ; Russia ; Tajikistan ; Tajik Security Forces ; Afghan Border ; Militant Violence ;
Special Security Operations

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